Text formatting on the website

Last edited 12 Sep 2017, 23:10.

We're using a modified version of Markdown, which you might know from reddit, Discourse, or GitHub. It is a simple to read and write Markup language and much easier to read and write compared to BBCode or MediaWiki!

Mentions

This is not part of Markdown, but you can mention users by prefixing their IGN with @.
You will see a list of users as you start typing, you can select them with the arrow keys and hit tab to complete the name.

Mentioned users will receive a notification, unless they have disabled it.

Underline

Here is some _important information_

Here is some important information

Highlight

This is ==very important==!

This is very important!

Separating quotes

This was not added by us, but it's a relatively unknown hack.
Use an empty link to separate multiple quotes:

> Quote A
[]()
> Quote B

Quote A

Quote B

Superscript

You can (ab)use superscript for small text:

This is an ^example and ^(one with longer text) too

This is an example and one with longer text too

YouTube

You will need the ID of the video you are posting. If you do not know how to do that, this is the easiest way:

Use the "Share" button below the video on YouTube and copy the youtu.be URL

The part behind the last / is the video ID

Example:

https://youtu.be/Nh5uisxlJVU

The video ID is Nh5uisxlJVU.

[​yt:Nh5uisxlJVU]

Please note that this feature is experimental! It's self-made and a bit buggy, e.g. when put in a code block it will still render as video!